Episode 3

In Luoyang, Tao Yao enjoys a meal at Zhu’s Eatery before investigating the shop’s vanishing salt and discovering a Salt Mouse that survives on tears. After feeding the spirit and following it to Donor Qu, a gravely ill man outside Mingjing Temple, she agrees to watch him while Monk Kongyun fetches charcoal, as the Salt Mouse presses her to intervene.